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JD wrote: ↑31 Dec 2019, 17:07
Remember the leather jacket that I lost? I got it back! I went to the only place I could realistically think of having left it, the shoe repair place I take all my leather stuff to, and they still had it! Being crumpled up in a plastic bag for months didn't really do it any favors, but I don't even care, I'm just glad to have it back.
JD wrote: ↑22 Oct 2019, 09:44
I don't recall leaving it at a repair shop or anything, and it's hard to imagine I would have taken it in for repair and then totally forgotten about it. So I'm at a complete loss as to my favorite leather jacket.
JD wrote: ↑31 Dec 2019, 17:07
Remember the leather jacket that I lost? I got it back! I went to the only place I could realistically think of having left it, the shoe repair place I take all my leather stuff to, and they still had it! Being crumpled up in a plastic bag for months didn't really do it any favors, but I don't even care, I'm just glad to have it back.
JD wrote: ↑22 Oct 2019, 09:44
I don't recall leaving it at a repair shop or anything, and it's hard to imagine I would have taken it in for repair and then totally forgotten about it. So I'm at a complete loss as to my favorite leather jacket.
disparaging remark regarding your imagination
Hey, I'll accept it. It seemed unlikely to me, but it was also the most likely of a bunch of unlikely situations.
I sort of feel like a sucker about aspiring to be intellectually rigorous when I could just go on twitter and say capitalism causes space herpes and no one will challenge me on it. - Hugh Akston
This may be better off in the cars thread, but I hit 50 mpg on this last tank. I am pleased.
“I have no Message to reveal. But later on––Who knows?––I might.”
“A citizen may not be required to offer a ‘good and substantial reason’ why he should be permitted to exercise his rights. The right’s existence is all the reason he needs.”
I've been doing the best in winter that I have since I got my car, with tanks at 46 mpg (per a mileage log, not the onboard computer, which is usually 1-2 above that).
I've had winter months where it would be down at 35, but my trips are different and I've gotten better at saving fuel.
"Sharks do not go around challenging people to games of chance like dojo breakers."
Just got back from visiting the in-laws in Louisiana. I'm really hoping my older nephew comes to visit us in NYC soon. He's had kind of a rough life family-wise - his bio-dad took off when he was something like 18 months old, and his mom is a complete fuckup who has never shown much interest in raising him or in his education; if it weren't for his grandparents he'd probably be in a much worse place. He's 17 and has never been much more than a couple hundred miles from home or flown on a plane, and he's a high school dropout and is kinda sorta working part time while he lives with his grandparents.
We have brought up the possibility of him coming to visit us for a week or so, because I think it would be really good to show him some of the world beyond his small town. He seems interested, but his grandmother is all, "Oh, he's so nervous about it, and he's never flown before and you want him to fly up and have to transfer planes and you don't get how naive he is about some things etc. etc." And I just get frustrated, because I think that's her anxiety speaking, not his. He's not an idiot; he can recite the alphabet and count to 30, which is about all you need to take a commercial flight, and he'd have someone to take him to and from the airport at either end, and we'd be showing him around New York. I just worry that he'll let her judgement override his own. I don't have any kids of my own and I'm not going to, so my nephews and my niece are the kids I'm most likely to be able to affect in some way, and I'd really like to be able to make a difference, so I've got my fingers crossed we make it all work out.
I sort of feel like a sucker about aspiring to be intellectually rigorous when I could just go on twitter and say capitalism causes space herpes and no one will challenge me on it. - Hugh Akston
Ooh, I hope you CAN do this, JD! That would be a great opportunity for your nephew.
"Myself, despite what they say about libertarians, I think we're actually allowed to pursue options beyond futility or sucking the dicks of the powerful." -- Eric the .5b
Ellie's post reminded me this thread existed. I meant to find a thread to post a small random good thing last week. As Facebook will do, it suggested a few people whom I might be interested in 'friending' and up popped the author George Pelecanos. For those who've never heard about him, he's a D.C. based author, mostly detective genre, and worked with David Simon on "The Wire," "Treme," etc. I had nothing to lose so I pushed the invite friend button and he accepted. Not a big deal and I've yet to see him post anything, but I thought it was kind of neat.
My office window overlooks a bunch of backyards with trees, so I hung a seed bell up on the bars on my window, and some birds have been visiting, most notably a blue jay.
I sort of feel like a sucker about aspiring to be intellectually rigorous when I could just go on twitter and say capitalism causes space herpes and no one will challenge me on it. - Hugh Akston
D.A. Ridgely wrote: ↑01 May 2020, 14:03
Ellie's post reminded me this thread existed. I meant to find a thread to post a small random good thing last week. As Facebook will do, it suggested a few people whom I might be interested in 'friending' and up popped the author George Pelecanos. For those who've never heard about him, he's a D.C. based author, mostly detective genre, and worked with David Simon on "The Wire," "Treme," etc. I had nothing to lose so I pushed the invite friend button and he accepted. Not a big deal and I've yet to see him post anything, but I thought it was kind of neat.
I think journalists, writers, and such, accept all friend invites.
D.A. Ridgely wrote: ↑01 May 2020, 14:03
Ellie's post reminded me this thread existed. I meant to find a thread to post a small random good thing last week. As Facebook will do, it suggested a few people whom I might be interested in 'friending' and up popped the author George Pelecanos. For those who've never heard about him, he's a D.C. based author, mostly detective genre, and worked with David Simon on "The Wire," "Treme," etc. I had nothing to lose so I pushed the invite friend button and he accepted. Not a big deal and I've yet to see him post anything, but I thought it was kind of neat.
I think journalists, writers, and such, accept all friend invites.
D.A. Ridgely wrote: ↑01 May 2020, 14:03
Ellie's post reminded me this thread existed. I meant to find a thread to post a small random good thing last week. As Facebook will do, it suggested a few people whom I might be interested in 'friending' and up popped the author George Pelecanos. For those who've never heard about him, he's a D.C. based author, mostly detective genre, and worked with David Simon on "The Wire," "Treme," etc. I had nothing to lose so I pushed the invite friend button and he accepted. Not a big deal and I've yet to see him post anything, but I thought it was kind of neat.
I think journalists, writers, and such, accept all friend invites.
I'm sure many do. OTOH, I friended a novelist (Mary Doria Russell) I like quite a bit, and ended up having a personal exchange with her via messenger.
D.A. Ridgely wrote: ↑01 May 2020, 14:03
Ellie's post reminded me this thread existed. I meant to find a thread to post a small random good thing last week. As Facebook will do, it suggested a few people whom I might be interested in 'friending' and up popped the author George Pelecanos. For those who've never heard about him, he's a D.C. based author, mostly detective genre, and worked with David Simon on "The Wire," "Treme," etc. I had nothing to lose so I pushed the invite friend button and he accepted. Not a big deal and I've yet to see him post anything, but I thought it was kind of neat.
I think journalists, writers, and such, accept all friend invites.
I'm sure many do. OTOH, I friended a novelist (Mary Doria Russell) I like quite a bit, and ended up having a personal exchange with her via messenger.
The maximum number of 'friends' allowed on Facebook is 5,000.
D.A. Ridgely wrote: ↑01 May 2020, 14:03
Ellie's post reminded me this thread existed. I meant to find a thread to post a small random good thing last week. As Facebook will do, it suggested a few people whom I might be interested in 'friending' and up popped the author George Pelecanos. For those who've never heard about him, he's a D.C. based author, mostly detective genre, and worked with David Simon on "The Wire," "Treme," etc. I had nothing to lose so I pushed the invite friend button and he accepted. Not a big deal and I've yet to see him post anything, but I thought it was kind of neat.
I think journalists, writers, and such, accept all friend invites.
I'm sure many do. OTOH, I friended a novelist (Mary Doria Russell) I like quite a bit, and ended up having a personal exchange with her via messenger.
The maximum number of 'friends' allowed on Facebook is 5,000.
Which suggests to me that Ms. Russell is near-criminally under known.
